DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Whitewash for Trujillo

New-Dealing New York Lawyer
Morris Ernst, who has defended liberal causes ranging from James
Joyce's Ulysses to the Sauerkraut Workers Union, this week finished a
chore with a somewhat different aroma. After ten months on the payroll
of Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo, Ernst declared in a 95-page
report that he had not found one scrap of evidence to link his eminent
employer to the unsolved Galindez-Murphy case (TIME, April 2, 1956 et seq.).
He airily dismissed as a "canard" the strong circumstantial case
that leads newsmen and the FBI to a single...